Windows and raw thumbnails...

[woof woof]

A recent update has caused my PC to display thumbnails for everything... and I don't want raw thumbnails but I do want JPEG thumbnails.

This happened once before and I managed to sort it out in regedit but this time I've had total brain fade and I can't remember what I did so could some kind person please tell me how to stop thumbnails appearing for raw files and keep them for JPEG's.

Thanks in advance.

 

[BrynBoru]

Not sure about PCs, but perhaps if you try clicking on Desktop and then on View, you may get options.

 

[woof woof]

Not sure about PCs, but perhaps if you try clicking on Desktop and then on View, you may get options.

I think that just applies the change globaly so that all things appear as thumbnails or icons or whatever, what I want to do is display raws as icons and JPEGs as thumbnails so that I can easily tell them apart and don't click on a raw when I all I want to do is look at a JPEG.


I managed a fix of sorts so I thought I'd post it here just in case anyone else is annoyed by any update that makes the PC show a thumbnail for everything.

I called up regedit and deleted the following...

DNG, RW2 and CR2

from...

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.css
but that didn't work
so I deleted them from here...
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.rwl
and that worked and now raw files appear as icons not as thumbnails. JPEGs still appear as thumbnails.

 

[BrynBoru]

I'm too simple-minded to understand that, so I do all my file management in Lightroom. By using the "Text" filter, I can choose e.g. file extension ".jpg" to see only jpegs, etc. But maybe you prefer not to use LR.